Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPeople who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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